The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Chaos (and Not-Great Energy) at the White House | Terese Marie Mailhot

Episode Date: March 8, 2018

Cab drivers lash out at Uber in Greece, Trump denies reports of White House "chaos" before another chaotic day, and Trevor sits down with author Terese Marie Mailhot. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. March 7, 2018. From Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York, this is the Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Ears Edition. Thank you.

Thank you very much everybody. Thank you so much for shooting in on Treminoa. Take a seat, everybody. My guest tonight here to talk about her amazing new memoir, author Teres Marie Mayotte is joining us everybody. It's going to get a great conversation. And can I just say, before we get into the show, thank you guys for coming out in the middle of a storm, I appreciate, this is amazing.

Yeah, the whole city of New York is basically shut down and these people were like, no, we're not shutting down anything. In fact, I wasn't coming to work and then they're like, ah, the audience is here and I was like, all right, I guess I'm going. So let's get into it. First up, we've got some breaking vape allegations. A new study out tonight warns that vaping, especially by teenagers, may be more dangerous than many believe. Research found those who used fruit flavor products had significantly higher levels of five toxic chemicals. The toxicicans that we found in these teenagers are the same toxicans that we find in traditional smokers, just in lower levels.

I would expect to find similar side effects such as heart disease and cancer down the road. Okay, hold up. You mean to tell me that inhaling liquid made in an unregistered Cambodian chemical plant is bad for me? But the guy at the store with the marijuana leaf face tattoo said it was safe. I think he was a doctor. I think it was. Yeah, but this, come on, this surely should be the end of vaping, right? Because now you get cancer and you look like a duchebag. Seriously, there's a reason that no one cool ever vapes in movies. I admire your luck, Mr. Bond.

James Bond. First bond to never get laid. Let's move on now to Uber, the vape pen of taxis. Since the launch of the ride sharing service, taxi drivers all over the world have complained that because Uber is largely unregulated, it has hurt the taxi industry. And by taxi industry, I mean, the industry, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I the the the industry, I mean, I mean, the industry, the industry, the industry, the industry, the industry, I mean, I mean, I mean, I the industry, I the industry, I the the the the the the the the the the the the the thi the thi the thi thi, I thi, I thi, I the the the the the the the the the the the all over the world have complained that because Uber is largely unregulated it has hurt the taxi industry and by taxi industry I mean the industry of convincing passengers to ride in their K-Saintained Persios. Stop complaining it's the essence of life. So after years of watching their business dwindle, taxi drivers in Greece have decided

to hurt Uber back. Athens, Greece is the latest place where taxi drivers are striking. Today they are walking off the job in protest over unfair competition coming from Uber. I feel you guys, man. I feel you guys. I feel you guys, I feel you guys. I feel you guys, that's the same thing I do when my Uber is late. I feel you,, man, I feel you guys. That's the same thing I do when my Uber is late. I feel you, man.

Yeah. And look, I know these guys are angry, but some of their protests just look funny, right? Like, look at that guy. What is he doing? Like, look at, I've never seen a real-life person do this in anger. He's like a Greek donkey Kong. That's what he looks like. And by the way, you realize it's no coincidence that an Uber just happened to be in the middle of a protest, right? Like one of the taxi drivers must have called that Uber to the protest. Like, that's a pretty dick move. He was just like calling Uber now and the driver was like, where are you?

Don't worry, you'll see me. Yeah, I like to think that after the protest, because all the taxi drivers were on strike, they had to Uber home. They were like, all right, that was fun. Yeah, okay, let's call that guy back and hope he doesn't recognize us, yeah? Hey, buddy! But let's move on to another technology that is disrupting the world.

President trun, the new fake news narrative is that there is chaos in the White House. Wrong. There is no chaos, only great energy. I gotta say, man, if this whole president thing doesn't work out, Trump would be dope at writing Fortune cookies, eh? There is no chaos, only great energy. Your lucky number is 69. It's always 69. Now look, Trump always says things that are easily disproved, but yesterday was particularly entertaining because at 7.55 a.m. he tweeted, no chaos. And then the rest of the day was nothing but

chaos. Literally just a few hoursthe day was nothing but chaos. Literally just a few hours after he declared Tuesday no chaos great energy day. News broke that the council to the president, an evil Disney stepmom, Kelly Ann Conway, had apparently broken the law. We've got this breaking news now, and it has to do with advisor to the president, Kelly and Conway, the U.S. Office's Special Counsel, which says that it has looked and found evidence that Kelly and Conway violated the Hatch Act. Conway broke the law prohibiting government officials

from using their position to influence political campaigns. The watchdog says Conway went on TV twice to discuss the candidates in last year's Alabama Senate race. I always thought Kelly and Conway being on th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th tho th tho th discuss the candidates in last year's Alabama Senate race. I always thought Kelly Ann Conway being on TV was a crime. I just didn't know I was right. Because, I mean, the Hatch Act, I didn't know that that was a thing. But that's what's great about the Trump administration. We're learning about all of America's laws because they keep on breaking them. By the end of Trump's term, we're all going to be legal scholars. The Hatch Act, the Logan Act, the Emoluments Clause, I arrest my case.

But still, just because your top advisor was found breaking the law doesn't mean you're in chaos. So the President came out to assure everyone that everything in the White House was no chaos, great energy. The White House has tremendous energy, it has tremendous spirit. It is a great place to be working. Many, many people want every single job. I read where, oh gee, maybe people don't want to work for Trump, but believe me, everybody wants to work in the White House.

Phew, thank God. I believe him, yeah. Everybody wants to work in the White House. No chaos. Great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great. to great. to to to to to to to to thiiiii. to to thi. thi. th Everybody wants to work in the White House. No chaos. Great energy. We're following breaking news. Another high-level White House official is leaving. President Trump's top economic advisor Gary Cone is resigning. Gary Cone, becoming the latest in a string of White House advisors to abandon ship.

Uh, White House advisors abandon ship. That's chaos, not great energy! People don't abandon ships when there's great energy, Mr. President, unless maybe I missed that scene in the Titanic. There was too much great energy! Oh! Oh! I cry every time. Okay, but look, but look, maybe I'm being a hater, right? One advisor court breaking the law, another advisor quit. It's a bad day, but it's not exactly chaos. And the day was basically over, so what else could possibly go...

Breaking news this very hour. NBC News reporting tonight that adult film actress Stormy Daniels is suing the president of the United States Donald Trump, saying the hush agreement she signed is invalid because Trump never signed it. You know, this is amazing. I mean, usually porn plots only last like 30 seconds, but this one just keeps on going and going. How incompetent are you if you didn't sign your own NDA?

The same guy who slaps his name on everything. Buildings, vodka, the least sexy Twilight vampire. Everything except the NDA. So to recap, to recap, in the 12 hours following the Everything's Fine Tweet. A senior counselor, busted breaking the NDA. So to recap, to recap, in the 12 hours following the everything's fine tweet, a senior counselor busted breaking the law, a senior advisor said, F this, I'm out. And a senior citizen apparently forgot to sign the hush money contract with these porn star mistress. Like, I don't want to say the president's wrong, but this seems like chaos. Yeah, this is too crazy for me. You need to take this up with that shit.

Yeah, this is not me. You know what would be amazing? I was thinking about this earlier. You know what would be amazing? Is if Melania ends up divorcing Trump over this porn star thing, But he's still, he's still president, so now he's running the government out of a room at the Motel 6. Like he's leaning over the sink eating ramen noodles going, no chaos, great energy. We'll be right back. Hey everybody, John Stewart here.

I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show, it's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGID, thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election, economics, earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches and I know that I listed that fourth but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative.

Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight shares her experiences growing up on a small Indian reservation in British Columbia in her critically acclaimed debut book, HeartBerrys, A Memoir. Please welcome, Teres Marie Mayotte. Welcome for the show. Thank you. Thank you so much for being here and thank you so much for this book. This is an experience that I think few people would envy but most people would connect to. It is a memoir of your life that is written, and it's honestly one of the most authentic points of view

I've ever come across. When you were writing the book, one thing I wanted to discover from the beginning was, was it hard for you to figure out how to be the voice of American Indian people, but at the same time realized that you're not the voice for American Indian people? It was was was was was was was was. was. was th, was. Was it is th, was. It is th, th, th, th, and it is th, and it is th, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's the th, and it's thi, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the... And, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thi. th th the same time realize that you're not the voice for American Indian people. It's an interesting balance to have. Yeah, I think when you come from a collective culture, like a community that relies on each other, and when you speak out against against indigenous women, and when you speak out against the way we're treated and the way disparity is working

against our bodies and who we are. I feel like sometimes when I'm talking I feel representative and then I remember oh this is a singular story like this is what happened to me and I feel like if I can speak out I'm going to encourage other women to do so as well and hold up their voices when they do. So you know and that's how I relieve the pressure of feeling like, okay, I'm not speaking for all indigenous women, but I am helping, you know?

When you look at your story and you, the time that you've gone through, you speak about it in a painful way, in an authentic way, but in an uplifting way at the same time, I mean, there's there's times there's the the the the the the the the the the thi thi thi thi times thi times times times times times times times the same time. I mean, there's times where you talk about growing up on the res. As a native person, do you find that you connect with your world in a different way to how people perceive your world? Yeah, I mean, I grew up. My mother was a healer, and my mother was so powerful and also, you know, exploited. Her work was exploited, and she was living in a community where, and my, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, th. th. th. As a, as a thi, as a thi, as a thi, as a thi, as a thi, as a thi, as a thi, as a thi, as a thi, as a thi, as a to, as a thi, as a to, as a to, as a native, as a native, as a native, as a native, as a native, as a native, as a to, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a, as a thi, as a thi, as a thi, as a thi, as a native thiiia, asa, asa, asa, asa, asa, asa, asa, asa, as a native toa, asa, asa, asa, asa, asa, as a native toauiauiauia, asa, asa, asa, as a native toa, asa, asa, asa, asa, asa, you know, exploited. Her work was exploited and she was living

in a community where we were surviving on welfare and sometimes she was employed and working 70 hours a week and she had to neglect us to stay afloat, you know, so like, but really there were so many moments where we would collect medicine together and we would pray by the river almost daily. And she helped me see the world as familial and she helped me see the world as something sacred, quote unquote sacred. When you look at that relationship between yourself and your mother, do you think

that her, introducing you think that her introducing you to that world and having you live an authentic native or indigenous experience helped you or hindered you in assimilating to the world that was around you? And then do you think that's a good or a bad thing? It's difficult because she was resistant to let me fall in to try to please people within academic institutions at school. She was like, this is a choice and it was not created to hold up indigenous people. It was created to assimilate them into a white

culture. So she always tried to make me critical of the world and I thank her for that but it also hindered me a lot because I just wanted to be normal too you know and I think you know ultimately it helped because my voice is is the voice I grew up around and the voice that the book is getting attention for is the one she gave me. Right and it is a it is a voice that is apparent throughout the book. As you're telling your stories one thing becomes apparent and that is th and that and that th and that th and that th and that th and that th. the th. the th. the th. th. the th. the thi thi the thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the the the their their thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi voice that is apparent throughout the book. As you're telling your stories, one thing becomes apparent, that is there's so many different themes. There's your life on the reservation, there's your life within the family, which is a different experience as well. You share a heart-wrenching tale of discovering that your father was abusing you, which is something that's hard to comprehend.

What did you go through when you discovered that, and what did you mean by you discovered it? Yeah, I think when you have, when you, I told my mother when I was young that I had been abused by my father, and her reaction was negligent, her reaction was to kind of question if it really happened because she couldn't believe it because it would say something about her as a mother too and her ability to protect me. So she kind of didn't deal with it in the right

way which then again at 16 I let her know again that I think this happened mom like I remember these few few details and you know I told her and trusted her to again that I think this happened, mom, like I remember these few details. And I told her and trusted her to hold that space for me, but she was not prepared, you know. And so I kind of just tried to forget. And I think when you do that active forgetting, and you think, well, you know, this person didn't listen to me, who I trusted so much, and who I still trust so much and love so much, you mitigate and you think, well, I guess it didn't happen or I guess I misremembered. And then you realize when you're at the age I was, which was like, I think I was 32 and I realize, no, I would like to talk about this now because she's long gone and all I have to try to try. th...... th. th. th. And to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to.... I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I th. I think. I think. And, think, think, think, think, think, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, I th. And, I th. all I have is myself and I really need to get over and you know I need to look at this and I need to talk about it. Right. Yeah. When you look at your experiences growing up in the world you

grew up in and your relationship with your father and your mother, do you find that those things contributed to the stage in the book where you talk about having to institutionalize yourself. And what was that like? What is the conversation someone has with themselves where they go, I have mental health issues, I need to address this? Is there a shame? Is there a fear?

And how do you overcome that? Yeah, there's this stigma when we are vulnerable and we realize, oh, I'm crying more than I should. I feel thitated, like I can't go to work and I can't function. There's this urge and people encourage it that we just get over and go to work, that we just don't deal with it, but then, you know, I broke down.

After trying to just get over it and deal, you know, deal with the day-to-day aspect of life I broke down I had to realize that like my mental health was more important than going to work you know and I think I had the luxury at the time that it happened where I actually know I was evicted after I checked myself in so it really does have these effects you have to have the luxury of having being able to have a breakdown a a the the the the the the the the to to to to to to to to to break a to to break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break a break to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the today.a toe.a toe. toe. toea toa toa toa. toea. toea. the the the these effects. You have to have the luxury of having being able to have a breakdown. A lot of people don't. You know, a lot of people can't just check themselves in when they do, their life has changed

forever and I was just kind of lucky in that things did fall apart after that but I really I wasn't willing to give up hope, you know that was the last thing and I'm still holding it... th. th. th. th. th. th. I th. I th. I'm thus thus thus thus thus. I'm thus. I'm thus. I'm that. I'm that. I'm that. I'm th. I'm thr-I th. I'm thr-a. thi. I'm th. I'm to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to the the the the thi. thi. thi. the. the. the. the the. the the the the. the the the the the the the. the the. the the. the theee. the toe. toe. to to. that was the last thing and I'm still holding it. Right, and that is a thread that is apparent throughout the book is hope, you know, from a hopeless place moving forward to the space you're living in now in a loving relationship with your kids and with your husband and surrounded by friends and your community, which I feel is a big part of this story. How important is it or why do you think it's so important for indigenous voices to be heard in their most authentic way as opposed to being told from the view of somebody on the outside? Yeah, I think for a long time people have engaged with our communities with the hope to fix it and save us. You know, and I think we never wanted that. We don't need missionaries. We need to do things for ourselves and also for people to stop exploiting us and our land

and our resources and saying that we're doing it to ourselves when we're poor. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I think it's, I don't know. I mean, I look at it, and I think when I look at this book, I know that like a native woman who's probably a single mom and she might be on welfare, she might go into a library and she might see a book from a woman from her circumstance. Right. You know?

And I like it. I think there should be more of it. Yeah. I think I agree with you. It's a beautiful story. You have, honestly, one of the most amazing voices when it comes to putting it down on the page. Thank you so much for being on a show. Talk to ENDAWT. A beautiful memoir is available now.

To reach Marie Marene Mayotte, everybody. The Daily Show with Trevor No. Ears edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11. 10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central app. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show. to the Daily Show. And follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for exclusive content and more. This has been a Comedy Central podcast. John Stewart here.

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